From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 28 18:22:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6CD616A4CE for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:22:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (creme-brulee.marcuscom.com [24.172.16.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3125643D55 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:22:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.2] (vpn-client-2.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.2]) i9SIM4i8012227; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:22:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Message-ID: <418138D0.6090304@marcuscom.com> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:22:08 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Macintosh/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis References: <1098850867.51833.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1098862658.1062.3.camel@localhost> <20041027110528.T91011@treo.operax.com> <20041028123001.GF8588@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20041028123001.GF8588@odin.ac.hmc.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com cc: Vladimir Grebenschikov cc: "current@freebsd.org" cc: Johan Larsson Subject: Re: Installing on a machine with no PS/2 ports (USB only) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:22:55 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brooks Davis wrote: | On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 11:06:04AM +0200, Johan Larsson wrote: | |>Hello! |> |>On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote: |> |> |>>? ??, 27/10/2004 ? 00:21 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke ?????: |>> |>>>The more I look into this, the more it looks like I'm screwed. I'm |>>>trying to install FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 from CD on a machine without any PS/2 |>>>ports. All I have is a USB keyboard. Yes, the BIOS has legacy USB |>>>support enabled, and the keyboard works to hit enter at the initial boot |>>>prompt. However, once I'm in sysinstall, I'm out of luck. |>>> |>>>I tried disconnecting the keyboard at boot time to see if I could get a |>>>serial console to do the installation, but that didn't work. The |>>>console was still detected as internal video. Any ideas on how I can |>>>get FreeBSD on this machine (Dell OptiPlex GX280)? Thanks. |>> |>>Yes, instruct kernel to put console on serial from loader prompt |>>( I guess something like |>> OK set hint.sio.0.flags="0x10" |>> OK boot -h |>> or like |>> ) |>> |> |>We installed RC1 on a GX280 recently, and the only thing we had to do to |>get the usb keyboard working was to set the following in the loader: |> |>set hint.atkbd.0.flags="0x1" |> |>And to make it resident, put it in the /boot/device.hints after the |>installation. | | | This is supposed to be being set on the release CDs. The test CD I | posted links to uses nearly the same code I committed. I'm going | to have to see if I can tear an ISO apart to verify what's on it. | Unfortunately, my hotel has a 150MB cap (f-ing ridiculous for 29 Euros). Did your changes make it into 5.3-RC1? Joe | | -- Brooks | - -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBgTjPb2iPiv4Uz4cRAgj9AKCEP63aSuSJfrFHidiagjWww7F05gCeLY1U JSDswq/7xBSU8BXV0+SRRlA= =W5xr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----